AN AMAZING floating hotel full of homely cabins on stilts is set to be built on an abandoned salt lake in the next three years. Sat in a popular Brit holiday hotspot, the magnificent 50-hectare tourist attraction is expected to transform an old Portuguese lagoon into a luxury resort. The project is being developed by Danish maritime architecture studio MAST who have revealed the ambitious plan.

The holiday complex will be located on the Sado Estuary near Setúbal on top of a huge body of water that was used for salt production. Having taken design tips from the old fisherman's huts and jetties, the resort will feature over 50 hotel rooms. Each tourist will be given their own Portuguese stilt house that sits overlooking the water.

Pictures of the potential hotel show the rooms seemingly floating as a number of long, winding platforms take you from home to home across the water. Made of timber, the homes are seen as the future of luxury travel with giant patio windows, personal sun loungers and a plunge pool coming with each one. Each houses is easily accessible by a boat or kayak or through a network of elevated bridges - also on stilts - that connect to and benefit the local wildlife.

Alongside the houses, the site is also looking to renovate the building previously responsible for storing the salt produced into a restaurant and spa. Elsewhere, a towering building will be used for travellers to birdwatch across the endless miles of wetlands and across the neighbouring beach..